Assessing Older Persons: Measures, Meaning, and Practical Applications. Este artículo no está disponible.Assessing Older Persons: Measures, Meaning, and Practical Applications

This book describes the multidimensional assessment of older persons, offering unique insights into the state of this art. It combines comprehensive reviews of the most widely used instruments for measuring a variety of domains (such as psychological status, cognition, affect, social function, quality of life, physical environment, and caregiver burden) with an exploration of the variety of uses to which these assessments have been put. It shows how assessment is used in various aspects of practice, including comprehensive geriatric assessment, care planning, case management, and mandated assessments. It also contains a chapter on how to college data from persons who cannot communicate. The aim throughout is to combine information on specific measures with insight into how and when each measure should be used. Its message is both an urging to use assessments to enhance practice and a caution to use them wisely. The book is designed to service as both a resource for those working actively in the field and an introduction for those who are not familiar with assessment in a given area.

Select any written product from the house of Kane and Kane and you will be presented with an informed, authoritative discussion on fundamentally important isues in the care of older people that is thoroughly readable and highly educational. This book is no exception and its publication in paperback makes it affordable to all . . . this book is a highly recommended resource and should be on the shelf of every department that has anything to do with older people. (Age and Ageing)

I couldn't wait to receive this little book, and after reading several chapters I was even more excited about the content. It is essential for all health care providers who work with older people... Each chapter provides essential psychometric information about each instrument as well as important caveats about their uses... destined to become a classic. (Doody's Journal)